Glen comments on Rationality Quotes Thread December 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Glen 04 December 2015 07:40:59PM 0 points [-]

Are there any other systems for judging medicine that more accurately reflects reality? I know very little about medicine in general, but it would be interesting to hear about any alternate methods that get good results.

Comment author: ChristianKl 04 December 2015 08:03:41PM *  1 point [-]

It's hard to say how effective various alternative styls of medicine happen to be.

There's research that suggests Mormon's can recognize other Mormon from non-Mormons by looking at whether the skin of the other person looks healthy. Then Mormon's seem to live 6 to 10 years longer than other Americans.

On the other hand the nature of claims like this is that it's hard to have reliable knowledge about it.